New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-05-08
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a. FRACsco, May 7.--How rapidly California
4. isog settled is known only to those who come in
ss,,aI contact with the immigrants Since tho
.stoblishment of the immigration Association hve
xears aao 1t has found homes for not less than one
Sundred thousand people. Last year heavier
hrsiuess wasdone than ever before, which ID atrip
80 u,,,nIv TO the enormous number Of pleasure
$50. who are ont on cheap rates. This spring
tbere has been at least % per cent more land IN
orirv than last season. and several largo colonies
have been located cool lands in Shasta Ienalia
and other northern counties. The city CONTINUES
80 be overrun with Eastern tourists, anu fepor's
from the southern counties sho" 'na' '"o ~
.necnIation In real estate in Los Angeles ana san
nice has resolved no check. One SAFE Is reported
- lot IN bv.15o feet in o small colony about clght
-. t,o,, san Bernardino which brought $1,000
rhor. 9. nothing to Justify So CHI prices and when
s,a ycaction Fcomes the drop will be sudden ana
heavy.
A. tba frat annual.banouet Of the Chamber of
Commerce on Thursday night there was a notable
gatberinp Of San Franchises merchants, over 2oo
hang nresent. Letters of regret were received
{ror Senators Stanford and Hearst, and from Gov
ernor Bartlett and William T. Coleman Among
tbe sneakers were Con gressmen FELTON, and Morrow,
Cen.raI O. O. Howard land ex-senator Williams.
The majority of the speakers dwelt on the necessity
cf encouraging good class of immigrants to estah-
Ssh homes In the State, and the Importance OF
proper coast defences to protect them In case OF
var.
Three years ago Surf Gum, a young Chinese
woman. was imported here by u .brothel keeper IN
Chinatown, who paid 1900 for her. She supposed
sue was to do domestic work, but when she learneu
tbe horrible slavery to which she was doomed there
y ,sno way Of escape. She saved what she could
ot,a hoA III IN nny0h
., nav her passage to China. With another woman
she fed IN the night to Protestant mission. Her
%irket was bought and she expected to leave 1or
China this week. but the hghbinders had discov-
erad her hdins-place and secured her arrest on
charge of embezzlement. The case came up and
she was discharged on her recognlzance. but she
missed her steamer and lost all her clothing when
was on the vessel. She Is in terror OF being
dragged back to slavery so many of her country
women have been through perjured evidence OF
hahbinders.
One of the largest mortgages ever filed here was
that of the Spring Valley Water Works to the
California Safe Deposit Company for S5,0OOOCO.
The mortgage Is to payment of 5000 bonds OF
vi 900 EACH drawing per cent interest. recently
issued in order to redeem Ou tstanding per cent
bonds.
aCount" Smith, known to all tourists head
clerk of the Palace Hotel, with phenomenal
memory for faces and names, Is inst recovering
from q long illness due to blood poisoning lie was
his desk this week for the first time III over two
months.
Captain McNair. of the. Upited States Navy,
sailed this week for Yokohama TO succeed Captain
Eeifrdge as commander of the man-of-N ar Omaha
There was q rumor about Pine-st this week that
James C. Flood would soon retire from business and
epcnd several years in Europe. When Mr. Flood
coughed and said " have 10 present intention OF
retiring from business. expect to remain IN bus!-
ness until die"
At Bakersfield, in Kern County, this week was
buried X. VI. Siebert who shot IN the mount
aims that town under the mistaken impression
that be a fugitive murderer " PETE" Olson
enc month ago. but digent search has a,led TO
capture him. Siebert bore striking resemblance
10 tho fugitive. lie had taken up some Govern
meut land in the mountains and was surprised when
cutting wood and shot bee he refused to throw
mp his hands. 1t appears that Siebert was person
che 'Topolobampo colonists lie tired of the colony
and be TOOK up land in Kern County in order TO
start q colony there. The shooting of this innocent
man an outrage equal 10 the killing OF China
man in Butte County who was mistaken for Hong
Dye, the murderer. In neither case have the
authorities taken any notice of these shootings,
which were wholly uDjusti6able murders.
San Francisco and Portland, Oregon, are now
within forty-two hours of each other, through rail
connection being made, with the exception OF
twenty -niLe miles This short gap is over mountain
roads and the staging consumes seven hours. 1t Is
expected that by another year the road Will be com
plotted, when an important market will DO opened
Tor California fruit and other products